Bukunzi

Bukunzi, also known as Mbirizi, ^[1] was a small kingdom located in the eastern parts of what is now The Democratic Republic of Congo. The kings of Bukunzi were renowned throughout the region for the legendary control of the rain. ^[2] Located east of the Ruzizi River, Bukunzi was founded by members of the Shi royal family and a former territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who were divided by Belgium..Located southeast of Lake Kivu, its historical ties were to the west with Bushi. ^[3] Through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, it had close ties to Ngweshe, one of the most powerful of the Shi states. ^[4] Bukunzi remained apart from the Democratic Republic of Congo until the military campaign led by colonial Belgium divided it and merged it to Rwanda. This is how the area of the former Bukunzi kingdom is now part of Rusizi District in Rwanda. ^[3]

Footnotes

1. Footnote 29 Archived November 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine of Newbury, David; Newbury, Catherine (June 2000). "Bringing the Peasants Back In: Agrarian Themes in the Construction and Corrosion of Statist Historiography in Rwanda". The American Historical Review. 105 (3): 832–877. doi:10.1086/ahr/105.3.832. JSTOR   2651812.
2. Newbury 106
3. Newbury 325
4. Newbury 327

References

• Newbury, David (1992). Kings and clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN   978-0-299-12894-4 . Retrieved 10 December 2009.

Further reading

• Ntezimana, Emmanuel (April 1980). "Coutumes et traditions des royaumes du Bukunzi et du Busozo". Études Rwandaises (in French): 15–39.
• Ntezimana, Emmanuel (June 1980). "L'arrivée des Européens au Kinyaga et la fin des royaumes hutu du Bukunzi et du Busozo". Études Rwandaises (in French). XII (3): 1–29.

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